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River Improvement Trust Act 1940
sec.11EWork by trust to ensure compliance with improvement notice
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### sec.11E Work by trust to ensure compliance with improvement notice
This section applies if a person to whom an improvement notice applies does not fully comply with the notice.
The trust may, through its employees and agents, and with any necessary equipment—
perform all works necessary to ensure that the person’s obligations under the notice are complied with; and
to the extent necessary under paragraph (a) , enter and stay on any land.
All expenses reasonably incurred by the trust in performing the works may be recovered by the trust as a debt owing by the person to the trust.
If the same improvement notice applies to 2 or more persons, the persons are jointly and severally liable to pay the debt owing.
s 11E ins 2014 No. 64 s 38
(sec.11E-ssec.1) This section applies if a person to whom an improvement notice applies does not fully comply with the notice.
(sec.11E-ssec.2) The trust may, through its employees and agents, and with any necessary equipment— perform all works necessary to ensure that the person’s obligations under the notice are complied with; and to the extent necessary under paragraph (a) , enter and stay on any land.
(sec.11E-ssec.3) All expenses reasonably incurred by the trust in performing the works may be recovered by the trust as a debt owing by the person to the trust.
(sec.11E-ssec.4) If the same improvement notice applies to 2 or more persons, the persons are jointly and severally liable to pay the debt owing.
- (a) perform all works necessary to ensure that the person’s obligations under the notice are complied with; and
- (b) to the extent necessary under paragraph (a) , enter and stay on any land.